Got to be a fan-boy to enjoy this.

Rating: 3/10 (20 July 2013)

Where to start.
If you are an extreme fan-boy of del Toro or if this movie was a graphic novel, then you could enjoy this film. I started to walk out, but stopped and returned to my seat just so I can see if it got any better. I started to walk out as I thought to myself, here comes the girl/love interest, and poof there she was.
1: The script felt like it was written for some action cartoon on the Cartoon Network. Cheesy, annoyingly simple and utterly uninvolved. 2:
2: Yet it fit the characters who were, cheesy, annoyingly simple minded and utterly void of any concern for any of them.
3: In this world where every nation bonded together to use some seriously advanced tech to build these huge highly sophisticated jaeger (pronounced jagoff)fighting machines and the incredible tech needed to support,power, and operate them...everything else, and I do mean everything, is circa 1995. If you had an iPhone, people would bow to you as a tech god.
4: Did I mention how annoying and cliché the characters are? Very, and I was thinking throughout the movie, "why aren't they dying faster".
5: The various cause and effect used in this movie to "move it along" was some of the most dumbest I have ever witnessed on the big screen. The Government's conclusion and decision on the jaeger program, to set the stage of the movie, was beyond full retard, borderline obscene. I can't express how poorly the script, acting, directing and performance was. It was on the level of some action cartoon like pokemon or thundercats. GI Joe was a far better in every aspect.
6: Instead of the world treating this as the apocalypse, just guessing since "monsters from the sea" are destroying cities and killing thousands and thousands...and it is just getting worse. The world treats it more of a WWE/MMA road to world championship. No, really...they do. Just ask the fishing industry.
7: And seriously when you get down to it. Really big nasty monsters coming from the ocean to destroy mankind, and all we have is big bipedal robots that can't even swim or move, maneuver in the water?? Really? Not even an aquatic version to...you know...go out there in the deep ocean...where the monsters are coming from?